It's too risky a venture to try.

Besides in present conditions the boatmen make a great deal of money by taking tourists into the grotto.

If it were very easy to get in they could not charge so much.

It's a little mine of wealth to the Capri fisherfolk now, though years ago they used to say the place was haunted, and tell terrible tales about it.

They said fire and smoke had been seen issuing from the entrance, that creatures like crocodiles crept in and out, that every day the opening expanded and contracted seven times, that at night the Sirens sang sweetly there, that any young fishermen who ventured to sail near disappeared and were never seen again, and that the place was full of human bones." "What a gruesome record," declared Vincent.